HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 4429 (2)ORDINANCE NO.+'1 .
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING SECTION 18.43.050 OF THE PALO ALTO
MUNICIPAL CODE (COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT SITE
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS), RELATING TO THE
ALLOWABLE FLOOR AREA OF THE STANFORD SHOPPING
CENTER
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as
follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds as follows:
a. The Planning Commission, after duly noticed public
hearing, has recommended that the Council amend Section 18.43.050
of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (Community Commercial District Site
Development Regulations).
b. After duly noticed public hearing, and upon
consideration of said recommendation and of all testimony offered
upon the matter, the Council finds that the public interest,
health, safety and welfare of Palo Alto and the surrounding region
require the amendments to the Zoning Map as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. Section 18.43.050 of the Palo Alto Municipal
Code (Community Commercial District Site Development Regulations)
is hereby amended to read as follows:
18.43.050 Site Development Regulations.
The following site development regulations shall apply in
the CC community commercial district. When the CC community
commercial district is combined with the pedestrian shopping
combining district or with the civic center combining district,
more restrictive regulations may apply. Also more restrictive
regulations may be recommended by the architectural review board
and approved by the director of planning and community environment,
pursuant to Chapter 16.48.
(a) Site area. No requirement is established.
(b) Site width. No requirement is established.
(c) Site depth. No requirement is established.
(d) Front yard. No requirement is established.
(e) Rear yard. No requirement is established.
(f) Side yard. No requirement is established.
(g) Floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio
shall be as follows:
(1) The maximum floor area ratio for the Town and
Country Shopping Village Shopping Center shall be .35 to 3.; and
office uses at said shopping center shall be limited to fifteen
percent of the floor area of the shopping center ex.“iting as of
August 1, 1989. For the purposes of this section "Town and Country
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Village Shopping Center" is defined as all properties zoned CC and
bounded by El Camino Real, Embarcadero Road, Encina Avenue, and the
' Southern Pacific right-of-way.
(2) Stanford Shopping Center shall not be permitted
to add more than oixty five thouoand eighty thousand (80, 000)`
square feet of floor area to the total amount of floor area of the
Shopping Center existing as of August 1, 1989 June 14, 1996, one
million three hundred , thirty-two thousand three hundred s
x:332,362) aquae feet, for a total, square footage not
Ilion four hundred . twelve thousand three hundred s
62). For the purposes of this section, "Stanford Shopping
Center is defined as all properties zoned CC and bounded by El
Camino Real, Sand Hill Road, Quarry Road and ,
the properties) bordering Arboretum Road to the oouth the future
alignment of vineyard Lane.
(h) Site coverage. No requirement is established,
except as provided in Section 18.43.070.
(i) Height. The maximum height shall be 15.2 meters
(fifty feet) .
(j) Accessory facilities and uses. Regulations
governing accessory facilities and uses, and governing the
application of site development regulations in specific instances,
are established by Chapter 18.88.
(k) Outdoor sales and storage.
(1) Except in shopping centers, all permitted
office and commercial activities shall be conducted within a
building, except for:
(A) Incidental sales and display of plant
materials and garden supplies occupying no more than one hundred
eighty-six square meters (two thousand square feet) of exterior
sales and display area,
(B) Outdoor eating areas operated incidental
to permitted eating and drinking services,
(C) Farmers' markets which have obtained a
conditional use permit, and
(D) Recycling centers which have obtained a
conditional use permit.
(2) Any permitted outdoor activity in excess of one
hundred eighty-six square meters (two thousand square feet) shall
be subject to a conditional use permit. Exterior storage shall be
prohibited, except as provided under (D) of this subsection.
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' (1) Site and design review. Residential and
nonresidential mixed use projects shall be subject to site and
design review in accord with Chapter 18.62.
(m) Special setbacks. Where applicable, setback lines
imposed by a special setback map pursuant to Chapter 20.08 of this
code shall be followed for the purpose of determining legal setback
requirements.
S8CTION 3. The City Council adopts this ordinance in
accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA")
findings adopted by Resolution No. 7685.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective upon the
thirty-first day after its adoption, but shall be suspended and
inoperative unless and until the Ordinance Adopting the Development
Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and the Board of Trustees
of the Leland Stanford ,Junior University has been approved by the
City Council and, if submitted to a referendum by the City Council
on its own motion or by a certified sufficient petition of the
electorate, pursuant to the Article VI, section 3 of the Charter of
the City of Palo Alto, until approved by the voters.
INTRODUCED:
PASSED:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Manager
Senior Asst. City Attorney Director of Planning and
Community Environment
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